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African Affairs 102:575-585 (2003)
© 2003 The Royal African Society

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Chinua Achebe, the African Writers series and the establishment of African literature

James Currey

James Currey is Chairman of James Currey Publishers.

In the list of ‘Africa's 100 Best Books’ published in 2002 over a quarter of the books had been published in the African Writers Series. Chinua Achebe is renowned for his novel Things Fall Apart which has sold close on 10 million copies. Much less well remembered is his creative role as the first Editorial Adviser to the Series in encouraging new writers from Africa. He firmly pressed Heinemann Educational Books to publish writing of quality without regard to problems of sex, religion or politics. Thus it was that an educational publisher established a general market in Africa for poetry, novels, plays and political memoirs. As Heinemann was based in London, it provided an international market for African writers in Europe, North America and the rest of the world.


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